Background

SAR is an acronym for "Service ARchive". SAR files are plain old Java JAR files that contain a JBoss service definition file (META-INF/jboss-service.xml) and (optionally) other resources needed by the service. By convention SAR files are named with a '.sar' extension.

Out of the box, Maven 2.x (at least as of version 2.0.7) does not include support creating SAR files, but there are a number of readily available plugins that provide this capability. Those that I am aware of include:

maven-sar-plugin Note that despite the name, as of 2007-08-31, this plugin is not a core maven plugin

jboss-sar-maven-plugin As I understand it, this was the earlier work that lead to the above 'jboss-packaging-maven-plugin', and has since been superseded by it.

Cookbook

This section details how to create a SAR artifact using the 'jboss-packaging-maven-plugin'. There are two examples: the first example shows the case of creating a SAR in a simple (non-multi-project) maven-2.x project. The second example shows how to create a SAR artifact in a subproject of a larger multi-project, and then include the SAR in an EAR file created in a different subproject.

Stand-alone SAR Project

FIXME: document simple case

SAR in a Multi-project Build, Included in an EAR

The steps below below pertain only to use of the 'jboss-packaging-maven-plugin' plugin, currently available in the codehaus.org snapshots repository:

Note that the 'dependencyManagement' entry for the SAR subproject in the top-level 'pom.xml' file indicates type 'sar', but the packaging type declared by the SAR subproject itself is 'jboss-sar'. During the 'install' build phase, the SAR subproject will install the artifact with a '.sar' extension in the local maven repository.

In the 'pom.xml' file of the subproject that produces the EAR file, I have the following relevant snippets:

The things to note about this snippet are that the dependency type of the SAR module is 'sar' (not 'jboss-sar'), and the '<SarModule>' element of the 'maven-ear-plugin' configuration does not include a classifier.

Related Work

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